12 Facts About Fritz Koenig

Fritz Koenig's family moved to Landshut in 1930, when he was six years old.

Fritz Koenig entered the Oberrealschule in 1942, and in the same year, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front, where he was taken as a prisoner of war.

In 1957, Fritz Koenig was selected to receive a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Also in the same year, 1959, Fritz Koenig married his wife Maria, who was born in Landshut.

Fritz Koenig achieved his final international breakthrough in 1961 with a solo exhibition at the Staempfli Gallery in New York.

Fritz Koenig's collection focused on a world-renowned collection of African works of art.

Fritz Koenig was a board member of the German Association of Artists from 1961 to 1972.

Fritz Koenig was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fritz Koenig died on 22 February 2017, at the age of 92 on his country estate in Ganslberg.

The combination of geometric forms like cuboids, spheres and bodies and limbs of cylinders to create new, organic-looking objects cast in metal made Fritz Koenig known in the early 1950s.

Many works by Fritz Koenig are held by the KOENIGmuseum that the artist and his wife founded in Landshut in 1993.

Fritz Koenig is regarded internationally as one of the most important German sculptors of the 20th century.